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Dead Memories · Slipknot

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Groove K
63 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART L
PART A
PART E
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
PART Y
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTEANPS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Memories on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-48 and toms through bars 49-54, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-46, 71-75 and 79-83, and 1 more place -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42                               43
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x-----------|
Dead Memories -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- T, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-42 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 9-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-45 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Memories?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dead Memories hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead Memories?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED